Author: H G Wells
Publisher: LP Publications
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 780
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8175361298
Description
This 2-volume work with 40 colored picture by a noted scholar is an attempt to tell, truly and clearly, in one continuous narrative, the whole story of life and mankind so far as it is known
to-day.
The need for a common knowledge of the general facts of human history throughout the world has become very evident during the tragic happenings of the last few years. Swifter means of communication have brought all men very close to one another for good or for evil. War becomes a universal disaster, blind and monstrously destructive; it bombs the baby in its cradle and sinks the food-ships that cater for the non-combatant and the neutral. There can be no peace now, we realize, but a common peace in all the world; no prosperity but a general prosperity. But there can be no common peace and prosperity without common historical ideas.
Such are the views of history that this Outline seeks to realize.
‘The Outline of History’ is an attempt to tell, truly and clearly, in one continuous narrative, the whole story of life and mankind so far as it is known to-day. It is written plain for the general reader, but its aim goes beyond its use as merely interesting reading matter. This work is in 2 Vols. comprising 40 colored pictures.
Contents
Vol. 1
Introduction
BOOK I: THE MAKING OF OUR WORLD
CHAPTER I
The Earth in Space and Time
CHAPTER II
The Record of the Rocks
CHAPTER III
Natural Selection and the Changes of Species
CHAPTER IV
The Invasion of the Dry Land by Life
CHAPTER V
Changes in the World’s Climate
CHAPTER VI
The Age of Reptiles
CHAPTER VII
The Age of Mammals
BOOK II: THE MAKING OF MAN
CHAPTER VIII
The Ancestry of Man
CHAPTER IX
The Neanderthal Men, an Extinct Race (The Early Palaeolithic Age)
CHAPTER X
The Later Postglacial Palaeolithic Men, the First True Men (Later Palaeolithic Age)
CHAPTER XI
Neolithic Man in Europe
CHAPTER XII
Early. Thought
CHAPTER XIII
The Races of Mankind
CHAPTER XIV
The Languages of Mankind
BOOK III: THE DAWN OF HISTORY
CHAPTER XV
The Aryan-Speaking Peoples in Prehistoric Times
CHAPTER XVI
The First Civilizations
CHAPTER XVII
Sea Peoples and Trading Peoples
CHAPTER XVIII
Writing
CHAPTER XIX
Gods and Stars, Priests and Kings
CHAPTER XX
Serfs, Slaves, Social Classes, and Free Individuals
BOOK IV: JUDEA, GREECE AND INDIA
CHAPTER XXI
The Hebrew Scriptures and the Prophets
CHAPTER XXII
The Greeks and the Persians
CHAPTER XXIII
Greek Thought and Literature
CHAPTER XXIV
The Career of Alexander the Great
CHAPTER XXV
Science and Religion at Alexandria
CHAPTER XXVI
The Rise and Spread of Buddhism
BOOK V: THE RISE AND COLLAPSE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
CHAPTER XXVII
The Two Western Republics
CHAPTER XXVIII
From Tiberius Gracchus to the God Emperor in Rome
CHAPTER XXIX
The Caesars between the Sea and the Great Plain of the Old World
BOOK VI: CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM
CHAPTER XXX
The Beginnings, the Rise, and the Divisions of Christanity
Vol. 2
BOOK VI (Contd.) CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM
CHAPTER XXXI
Seven Centuries in Asia (circa 50 B.C. to A.D. 650
CHAPTER XXXII
Muhammad and Islam
CHAPTER XXXIII
Christendom and the Crusades
BOOK VII: THE MONGOL EMPIRES OF THE LAND WAYS AND THE NEW EMPIRES OF THE SEA WAYS
CHAPTER XXXIV
The Great Empire of Jengis Khan and his Successors (The Age of the Land Ways)
CHAPTER XXXV
The Renascence of Western Civilization (Land Ways give place to Sea Ways)
BOOK VIII: THE AGE OF THE GREAT POWERS
CHAPTER XXXVI
Princes, Parliaments, and Powers
CHAPTER XXXVII
The New Democratic Republics of America and France
CHAPTER XXXVIII
The Career of Napoleon Bonaparte
CHAPTER XXXIX
The Realities and Imaginations of the Nineteenth Century
CHAPTER XL
The International Catastrophe of 1914
BOOK IX: THE NEXT STAGE IN HISTORY
CHAPTER XLI
The Possible Unification of the World into One Community of Knowledge and Will
Index